I like Sasuke in this he's virtually non-existant in my other too fics so far and he really is such a comic relief in this lol.
Disclaimer: (read chapter 1 please I had run out of funniness oh noes!)
Walking Backwards
Chapter 2 New Beginnings
"I'm Doctor Maito Gai, but you can just call me Gai being called doctor makes me feel old" the doctor joked while Neji was just standing there thinking 'Now would smacking him in the head with my suitcase right now be classed as self-defense...'
The two of them walked through the large double doors they entered an empty corridor. At the end was the reception desk and one of the nurses was there to greet them.
"Gai! Doctor Tsunade told you not to greet the patients anymore" the young brunette nurse chastised the doctor.
"Hey the guards were going to leave him outside again what was I going to do!" Gai explained "Ah...Neji, you wouldn't know our young Tenten Kengeki yet" he asked snapping Neji out of his staring contests with the ceiling.
"...No..." he replied thinking 'What does it look like I've been here before...?'
Tenten sighed pushing Gai out through the door "Go work Doctor Gai! which is what you are suppose to be doing at the moment you have a patient in Ward 7 waiting for you!" she reminded him.
"Is he always like that?" Neji asked her looking a little dubious.
"Yep, he's more trouble to be around than some of the patients" she joked and went behind the reception desk "Hey Sakura have you got the log-in book?" Tenten called out into the room behind her.
"It's on the desk last time I had it... I remember putting it right next to Gaara's file!" the other nurse replied running her hand through her short pink hair. After a couple of tries ruffling through the stack of files she eventually found it "Ah here it is finally! Damn that Kakashi leaving all these reports" she rambled on "He's does them all at once and just dumps them on reception honestly you can never find anything!".
Tenten just ignored her, like she ranted like that all the time, and opened the thick hard backed book to a fresh page "Now can you write you full name here in print and sign here and here" she order cheerfully handing Neji a pen. As soon as he'd completed it she closed the book back up and placed it on top of the wavering stack of psych exams. "Now I guess we'll have to give you the uniform..." she sighed "And you look so handsome too...oh well...hand over your bag please" Neji gave the nurse his suitcase uncomfortably.
"Why?" he asked feeling uneasy at some stranger especially a girl going through his personal things.
"Um..." she said looking up for a second "To make sure you don't have anything that you could use to harm yourself or others with" she then pulled out all of the things she deemed safe and dumped them into a paper bag "Ok so no more questions?" Tenten asked and he shook his head "Now comes the best part 'the out fitters'" she said unenthusiastically motioning Neji to follow her.
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"Hmn so finally got someone with at least a little bit sanity Tenten?" the bearded middle-aged man said puffing away on his cigarette.
"Yeah Mr. Asuma" she replied walking through the door.
Asuma climbed down off the ladder he'd been standing on shifting boxes.
After about quarter of an hour they'd found a gown, t-shirt and pants that fit. Neji flinched slightly as Asuma did his final measurements "Sorry there kid I normally deal with punks in straight jackets and psycho's screaming about God or the voices in there head" he apologized tapping the ash off the end of his cigarette before he started smoking again "Yeah...good this should fit fine for a good six years" he said to himself backing away to look at his handy work.
"Asuma when are you going to stop pretending you're a tailor" Tenten said exasperated.
"When the Government starts paying me a decent wage...Yo girly I like ya choice out of the wards, Shika will just love having him around, his highness has been pissing him off lately" he commented scratching his beard.
"ASUMA!" she yelled at him "How many times have I told you not to hack into the records...god I don't know who is worse you or Gai" and she grabbed Neji by the arm and led him out but not before Asuma yelled out to them "HEY I RESENT THAT AT LEAST I DON'T WHERE SPANDEX!"
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As they rose level by level up the stairs Neji began to realize that the higher they went the more insane the patients appeared.
"I'm sorry about having to walk our elevator's getting fixed" she said hanging her head "We barely have enough money to keep this place running as it is the damn feds have been cutting back health funding so much lately and they wonder why there's so many murders lately... here we are Level 4 ward 10 yep that's right" she unlocked and pushed open the heavy metal door.
Neji took in everything about the room, there wasn't much to look at the walls were covered in cushion padding coloured a sickly hospital white , a table and six chairs were bolted to the floor next to them a large couch sat to the left of the door in front of a T.V. and VCR on a high shelf.
Branching off from the main room there was a short hall way which lined with three doors on either side.
Though the room was rather bland; the people on the other hand...Neji would never admit it...well...they were what really scared him about living here...